People & Communities – Page 17 – The Nature of Cities

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2015 May

Bringing Cities to Nature at the 2015 George Wright Society Conference

Lynn Wilson

Awareness, Children, Coasts, Communities, Conservation, Ecocities, Health, Parks, Planning, Policy, Resilience
2015 May

There’s a Social Element to the Nature in Cities

Adrian Benepe

Biophilia, Experiencing Nature, Invasive Species, Tools, Wildlife People Interactions
2015 May

A World without Cars, as Imagined by Eric Sanderson

Paul White

Awareness, Design, Ecocities, Health, Livability, Planning, Transportation
2015 Apr

What Is Civic Ecology? 25 Definitions. TNOC Podcast Episode 004

David Maddox

Communities, Gardens, Participation/Democracy, Stewardship
2015 Apr

What are “Garden Cities” Without a Garden Culture? How a Cultural Connection with Nature Can Build a Truly Sustainable Future

Patrick M. Lydon

Asia, Biophilia, Communities, Ecocities, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Sustainability
2015 Apr

Chinese Urban Green Areas: Classic Gardens to a Globalized Landscape

Maria E Ignatieva
,
Na Xiu
and
Fengping Yang

Asia, Design, Invasive Species, Landscape, Parks
2015 Mar

Where Can Civic Ecology Lead? TNOC Podcast Episode 003

David Maddox

Communities, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Resilience
2015 Mar

Green Transport Routes Are Social-Cultural-Ecological Corridors

Janice Astbury

Corridors, Experiencing Nature, Networks, Planning, Transportation
2015 Mar

Unintended Consequences: When Environmental “Goods” Turn Bad

Francois Mancebo

Communities, Design, Ecocities, Justice, Policy
2015 Mar

Neighborhood Planning for Resilient and Livable Cities, Part 2: Can ‘Nested’ Neighborhood Planning Lead to Urban Ecological Democracy?

Jayne Engle
and
Nik Luka

Communities, Design, Justice, Livability, Planning
2015 Mar

Extinction of Experience: Does it Matter?

Marianne Krasny

Awareness, Conservation, Experiencing Nature, Gardens
2015 Mar

Why Do People Use Parks and Plazas in Buenos Aires?

Jonathan Craik
,
Ana Faggi
,
Sebastian Miguel
and
Leslie Vorraber

Communities, Experiencing Nature, Livability, Parks, South America, Tools, Value
2015 Mar

Apples and Tomatoes: Comparing Community Gardens and Municipally Sponsored Urban Agriculture

Mara Gittleman

Agriculture, Gardens, Justice, Planning, Policy
2015 Mar

Encountering the Urban Forest

Lindsay Campbell

Communities, Experiencing Nature, Participation/Democracy, Trees, Value
2015 Mar

Citizen Science in the City: Lessons from Melbourne’s BioBlitz

Chris Ives
,
Yvonne Lynch
,
Caragh Threlfall
and
Mark Norman

Australia & New Zealand, Awareness, Biodiversity, Communities, Experiencing Nature, Participation/Democracy, Tools
2015 Feb

Closing the Sustainability and Equity Gap: What Does it Mean to be both a Green and Just City? TNOC Podcast Episode 002

David Maddox

Communities, Justice, Livability
2015 Feb

The Bright Side of Indigenous Urbanization for Biodiversity

Henrique Mercer
,
Viviana Figueroa
,
Andre Mader
and
Oliver Hillel

Awareness, Biodiversity, Communities, Design, Indigenous peoples, Participation/Democracy, Planning
2015 Feb

Ways Forward from China’s Urban Waste Problem

Judy Li

Asia, Ecological footprint, Economics, Livability, Waste
2015 Jan

“Growing Place” Revisited: After 12 Years, Children’s Activity in the School Biotope Project

Keitaro Ito

Biophilia, Children, Design, Experiencing Nature, Value
2015 Jan

Making the Measure: A Toolkit for Tracking the Outcomes of Community Gardens and Urban Farms

Philip Silva

Communities, Gardens, Tools
2015 Jan

Participation and Urban Open Space. TNOC Podcast Episode 001

David Maddox

Livability, Participation/Democracy
2015 Jan

Urban water fronts have typically been sites of heavy development and often are sites of pollution or exclusive access. But they have enormous potential benefits. How can we unlock these benefits for everyone? Are there ecological vs. social vs. economic tradeoffs?

Mitchell Chester
,
PK Das
,
Ana Faggi
,
Andrew Grant
,
John Hartig
,
Roland Lewis
,
Joe Lobko
,
Robert Morris-Nunn
,
Rob Pirani
,
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
,
Andréa Albuquerque G. Redondo
,
Bradley Rink
,
Hita Unnikrishnan
,
Jay Valgora
and
Mike Wells

Architecture, Climate change, Coasts, Conservation, Design, Economics, Planning, Value, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2014 Dec

Highlights from The Nature of Cities in 2014

David Maddox

Africa, Architecture, Art, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Awareness, Biodiversity, Biophilia, Coasts, Communities, Design, Development, Ecological footprint, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Planning, Policy, Resilience, South America, Stewardship, Sustainability, Value, Water, What is urban nature?
2014 Dec

Celebrating the Wilderness Act of 1964—and Celebrating Wildness in Cities

Tim Beatley

Awareness, Biodiversity, Biophilia, Communities, Design, Livability, North America, Parks, Policy, What is urban nature?
2014 Dec

Community Participation in Parks Development: Two Examples from Berlin

Katharine Burgess

Europe, Experiencing Nature, Parks, Participation/Democracy
2014 Nov

Urban Biodiversity Is Both an Educational and Public Awareness Challenge

Shuaib Lwasa

Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Education, Experiencing Nature, Value
2014 Nov

The Emerald Necklace: Metropolitan Greenspace Planning in Los Angeles and Beyond

Will Allen
,
Claire Robinson
and
Mike Houck

Corridors, Design, Landscape, North America
2014 Oct

Connective Tissue Matters in the Nature of Cities

Mary Rowe

Art, Awareness, Communities, Design, Livability, Participation/Democracy
2014 Sep

Neighborhood Planning for Resilient and Livable Cities, Part 1 of 3: Why Do Neighborhoods Matter and Where Are We Going Wrong?

Jayne Engle
and
Nik Luka

Communities, Livability, Planning, Resilience
2014 Sep

Born to be Wild (Sort of)

Paul Downton

Architecture, Awareness, Design, Popular